How To Remove/Disable Log Off Entry On Windows 7 Start Menu

One of our readers has asked a way to disable “Log off” on Windows 7 Start menu. Windows 7 doesn’t allow you remove log off entry from Windows 7 start menu easily. You need to either play with Windows registry or Local Group Policy to make this happen.

If you are running Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate, you can remove “Log off” entry via Group Policy. But Windows 7 Home Basic and Home Premium editions don’t come with Group Policy editor. So you need to disable the entry via Windows registry.

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The reg files don’t work. Don’t bother. Still have not found an option that works to remove ALL of the options on that Start Menu (From hibernate to shutdown to reboot to log off). May have to develop a Task-Bar-Less shell. Seems like waaaaaay too much trouble.

How to disable a user’s logoff option on the Start Menu?
I mean, if i want to disable in the regedit as user, i can’t because several “access denied”, gpedit.msc also can’t execute as user, but if i put a user to the administrators group and run either gpedit.msc or regedit to disable the logoff option, the action will be apply to the administrator group, and as i put back the user to user group he will get back that stuck logoff button i want to disappear….

How do you re-enable the logoff option if you downloaded the registry tweak? Before I didn’t need the option to logoff because I have a laptop with only one account that everyone in my family shares, but now I enabled the hidden administrator account.